{"id":15900,"date":"2011-08-28T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15900"},"modified":"2011-08-28T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T20:28:25","slug":"a-mystery-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15900","title":{"rendered":"A Mystery of a People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/tsot\/archive\/A_Mystery_of_a_People.mp3\/view\" target=\"_blank\">A Mystery of\u00a0 a People<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\" target=\"_blank\">WUNC 91.5, Chapel Hill<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/programs\/tsot\/\" target=\"_blank\">The State of Things<\/a><br \/>\nNorth Carolina Public Radio<br \/>\n2011-07-28<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaac-davy Aronson<\/strong>, Host<\/p>\n<p>Questions of racial identity and cultural heritage have long surrounded a group of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachian_Mountains\" target=\"_blank\">Appalachians<\/a> called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=118\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeons<\/a>. In recent years, curiosities have been piqued about this loosely connected group of people, spawning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DNA\" target=\"_blank\">DNA<\/a> testing, numerous books, Web sites and a documentary film. Guest host Isaac-Davy Aronson talks with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/K._Paul_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">K. Paul Johnson<\/a>, corresponding secretary for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.melungeon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeon Heritage Association<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/juliewilliamsdixon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julie Williams Dixon<\/a>, a Raleigh-based writer and director of the film \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.melungeonvoices.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Melungeon Voices<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (00:19:10)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wunc.org\/tsot\/archive\/A_Mystery_of_a_People.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mystery of\u00a0 a People WUNC 91.5, Chapel Hill The State of Things North Carolina Public Radio 2011-07-28 Isaac-davy Aronson, Host Questions of racial identity and cultural heritage have long surrounded a group of Appalachians called the Melungeons. In recent years, curiosities have been piqued about this loosely connected group of people, spawning DNA testing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,459,125,8,5113,20],"tags":[7363,7362,7366,877,100,7365,7364],"class_list":["post-15900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-triracial","category-usa","tag-isaac-davy-aronson","tag-julie-williams-dixon","tag-k-paul-johnson","tag-lumbee","tag-melungeon","tag-wunc","tag-wunc-91-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}